PERMUTATIONS AND COMBINATIONS

1. There are five roads going from town A to town B. In how many ways can a person
go by one road and
i. return by the same road

ii. return by a different road

2. How many different 3 figure numbers can be formed from the digits 1,2,3,4 if
i. repetitions are not allowed
ii. repetitions are not allowed
3. How many even numbers greater than 50,000 can be formed with the digits
3,4,5,6,7,0 without repetitions

4. A car registration number in Kenya is KDM 684P. How many different registrations
are possible using these letters and digits if they must all begin with K if repetitions
letters and digits is
i. allowed

ii. not allowed

5. Simplify
i.

ii.

iii.

iv. Simplify

v.

vi.

6. The current Kenyan motor vehicle registrations has the format KDL1 N1N2N3L2 where
L1, L2 are letters and N1, N2, N3 are numerals not all zero.
i. Identify the letters L1 cannot take
ii. Identify the letters L2 cannot take
iii. How many such number plates are possible?

7. A lift with a capacity of 10 people is to carry a party of thirteen men and seven
women from the ground to the 5th floor of a town hotel. Find the number of ways in
which the party may be lifted up if all the women go up in the first trip
8. A girl wants to ask eight friends to tea, but there is only room for four of them. In
how many ways can she choose whom to invite if two of them are sisters and must
not be separated

9. In how many ways can a man who has eleven chairs put six in one room, three in a
second and two in a third?

10. Find the number of ways in which a class of 24 students can be represented by 4
students at an exam board.